This of the V Region of Valparaiso is located in the sector. With a surface of 3,054 km², has a population of 91,683 inhabitants and its provincial capital is the City of The Andes. It is the second province with more size of the Region.

Los Andes
Capital City of the province of the same name, to 60 kilometros to the nororiente of Santiago of Chile. Cordillerana zone joint party with the commune of San Esteban the step the Liberators, border with Argentina.Fundada with the name of Villa Santa Rosa of The $andes the 31 of July of 1791 by the Governor of the Kingdom of Chile (Spanish Monarchy), Irish Don Ambrosio ÓHiggins Ballenary, in the called place "of Stopped Stones", fertile zone that fulfilled the conditions to establish a town that lodging gave and resupply to the travellers who crossed the mountain range. Before choosing the definitive place, Don Ambrosio Or Higgins had visited the called sector Curimón, in the way between San Felipe and - actualmente-Los Andes; where the franciscano convent of Santa Rosa de Viterbo is located from 1660, and it had chosen it to found Villa, but the Parish priest of Curimón and the neighbors made see the convenience him of founding Villa on Stones Stopped since it was a place more apt than Curimón, and more accessible for the travellers.
The first Mayor of Villa was Don Jose Miguel de Villarroel. First priest Parish priest was Presbítero Bernardine Barahona, who was one of the generous neighbors whom money for the acquisition of lands of Villa contributed, which belonged to the gentlemen Antonio Escudero and Francisco Herrera.Con a present population near the 60,000 inhabitants, she is characterized by the character campesino.Cultivos agrofrutícolas of parras, nectarines and citruses are destined mainly to the export and generate most of the uses for his población.También with mining production through the copper production of the Andean Division of CODELCO Chile.Es leaves from the running call Bioceánico important. During first half of century XX (from 1910 specifically), and it leaves from second, it started off from this city in the direction of Mendoza, Argentina, the call Trasandino Railroad, builds of English the Juan and Mateo Clark, who transported passengers and load from the 5 of April of 1910, date of its inauguration. From aims of the 70 it let transport passengers, and it completely finalized its operations at the beginning of the 80. At the moment, it is in project a new beginning of this historical railroad. Of the workers of this railroad the Sport Club Trasandino, representative official of soccer in the city was born.